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Beth Terrell, a friend on Facebook, issued a challenge on her page Spirit of Ink: “Write a scene in which a gardener gains a superpower.”

So I wrote a 100-word flash fiction:

On that fateful day, while clearing her rose garden of weeds, she wasn’t paying attention and did not realize the bottle of herbicide was aimed at her face instead of the weeds. The pain was excruciating, but she was able to flush away the poison with water from the hose. She then discovered the accident had left her with a super power – the ability to destroy plant life with one glance. The world almost starved, however, until she learned how to control this power so she could eradicate poison ivy instead of vegetables. She was soon the envy of all gardeners.